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...taxpayers called at the homes of their representatives. One party of them broke into the parlor of Paul Maurice Jacquier, Reporter General of the Budget, and sat there until ejected by police. France has not been a Republic so long. There are plenty of Frenchmen who remember the bloody Commune of 1871, the conspiracy of General Boulanger. One who remembers both these things is elderly Senator Marcel Regnier. In the Agence Economique last week he wrote...
...grown farmers thereabouts began to complain of midnight raids on their sheep. Locking Bertrand in his room only made him worse. Finally he escaped; Aymar tracked him into Paris by a trail of murders. During the siege of the city (this was in 1870) and the nightmare of the Commune, Werewolf Bertrand fed at will. But by the time Aymar found him Bertrand had fallen in love and was making desperate efforts to cure himself. But he was too far gone; one night he was caught redhanded, red-mouthed. Aymar, by now thoroughly convinced that the Medieval Church was right...
Professor Mason is a leading authority on socialism and communism, and has published several monographs on socialist leaders, as well as a history of the Paris Commune. The lecture this afternoon will deal with the fundamental principles of socialist society...
...eleven theatres have apparatus for this type of cinema, is frankly propaganda. It exhibits, with great self-satisfaction, Soviet methods of dealing with the problem of the wolfish ragamuffins who infested Moscow after the War. Corralled by the police, the wild boys are set to work in a juvenile Commune, superintended by a tactful and vigorous social worker (Nikolai Batalov). From time to time they are obstreperous but gradually they become addicted to honesty and industry. The star pupil of what Batalov calls the "Children's Commune" is a stubby youth named Mustapha (Tzyvan Kyrla), with the figure...
...overthrow of the present Government. It is not directed against any government holding office now, and hence affords no ground for a charge of high treason. Rather it sets forth as its premise that legal and constitutional government shall have been overthrown and replaced by the rule of a Commune. This illegal régime would then be replaced by one of the National Socialists who would undertake measures for the restoration of order and security...